The Epistemic Competence of Plato's Philosopher-Rulers in the Republic.

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Epistemic Competence of Plato's Philosopher-Rulers in the Republic.

Original language description

It is widely accepted that ruling is the sole prerogative of Plato&apos;s philosopherrulers because they alone possess knowledge ((sic)). This knowledge is knowledge of the Good, taken to be the only knowledge there is in Kallipolis. Let us call this the sufficiency condition thesis (the SCT). In this paper, I challenge this consensus. I cast doubt on the adequacy of the SCT, arguing that part of the training and education of the philosopher-rulers involves their gaining practical wisdom ((sic)) and experience ((sic)). To succeed in this, I have two main aims. First, I argue that the philosopher-rulers must attain optimum cognitive success in these three modes of cognition to function efficiently in ruling. This involves showing that Plato, for his political project, appeals to other senses of cognitive successes besides his strictly metaphysical epistemology. Second, I attempt to demonstrate how these three modes of cognition coalesce or coincide in ruling the perceptible world, especially in the judgement and determination of concrete perceptible matters.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Eirene : studia graeca et latina

ISSN

0046-1628

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

57

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1-2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

29

Pages from-to

119-147

UT code for WoS article

000773028000007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85131516140